>History is full of oversold simple solutions. Of course, history is also full of people insisting, "No, hold on, it's far more complicated than that!" and the

>History is full of oversold simple solutions. Of course, history is also full of people insisting, "No, hold on, it's far more complicated than that!" and then being totally wrong. For instance, people spent a very long time believing that a difficult-to-model combination of many different factors produced stomach ulcers. Then an experiment was done, and voila, the real cause was Helicobacter pylori. Simplicity (or, in fact, regularization) is helpful far more often than it's harmful.